[Bug-ddrescue] GNU ddrescue data recovery tool - more suggestions 02

[wilsonstreet]

ref;
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Hello,

Some more suggestions for improvement;

1) Estimated time to complete task (Min/Expected?Max).
i) If the source size is not detected, then the user could
be asked to supply a rough estimate of the size.
This lets the user get an idea of when they need to get back
to the operation to see how it is going.
ii) make a beep(s), or play a sound file on error detection,
and on completion. This means user does not need to keep a
"visual" on progress. 
iii) advanced option to send email or txt message of
progress reports.
iv) use system clock to show local times
(Earliest/Expected/Latest)

2) Verbose report - "full options report"
i)list all the options (in task related settings groups,
with groups as underlined titles).
ii) Highlight the options set by user in one color.
iii) List all other settings even if not used = No (or N/A
or Not Set)
iv) List options or settings which are default/automatically
detected/manually over-ridden

3) If the program changes the values of some parameters
during operation, then the user could choose to be informed
of this (e.g split size [started at][self adjusted to])

4i) program could report suggested settings for the next
attempt to extract the remaining (more difficult) data.
4ii) The user could be prompted to automatically accept the
suggested options and start the new scan.
4iii) There might be more than one automatically suggestable
option, but the options would explain the best use. For
example - choose option (a) if you are confident that the
disk will not crash. choose option (b) if you want to get
more data in a short time (note - you will probably need to
do another try after this one). choose option (c) if you
want to get as much data as fully possible in this next try.

5) Option for Reporting using "Tabular Display"
i) Bar chart of progress through source volume 
e.g.  IOOOOOOOO.....................I (disk size = blabla
GB)

ii) Table of condition of source and image
Key
Character       Meaning
'?'     copying non-tried blocks
'*'     trimming non-trimmed blocks
'/'     splitting non-split blocks
'-'     retrying bad sectors
'F'     filling specified blocks
'G'     generating approximate logfile
'+'     finished 

[scroll the following, while keeping the top part of the
report at the top of the screen,
or divide the space up so that the table will fit within the
remaining screen height]
Input                                          Output
position number I++++++--++++++++++++++++I     position
number I++++++--++++++++++++++++I
position number I++++++++++++++++++++++++I     position
number I++++++++++++++++++++++++I
position number I+++++++++++??///++++++++I     position
number I+++++++++++??///++++++++I
etc downwards


Yours
Al